Six pacers and seven spinners were selected by the Strikers’ coaches out of around 900 cricketers who came at the trial.

Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is entering a new chapter in his life as he is contesting in the national polls from Magura-1. For Shakib, cricket will have to take a backseat for a while. Still new to his political career, he was not keen on some of the hard questions on both politics and cricket. However, during an interview with Abdullah Al Mehdi of The Daily Star, Shakib did say things that somewhat contradicted his original stance about not featuring in the next ODI World Cup and the national team captaincy issue, which gained steam as of late with many suggesting a change in leadership, especially since Najmul Hossain Shanto did bring promising results in his short stint as an an interim skipper.

Sri Lanka appointed all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga as the captain of their Twenty20 side on Saturday ahead of their series against Zimbabwe next month, while batsman Kusal Mendis will lead their one-day international team.

After two years of intense lobbying, cricket finally got the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) seal of approval to be part of the 2028 Los Angeles Games having last featured in the world's biggest sporting extravaganza in 1900.

The Bay Oval at the city of Mount Maunganui had cemented a special place in Bangladesh cricket history for having staged the Tigers’ maiden Test victory over New Zealand at the beginning of last year.

The Tigers are leading the hosts 1-0 in the series with a five-wicket win in Napier

“We are enjoying it, we are enjoying the challenge and we are enjoying watching these young guys flourish,” Pothas said

Mahedi, playing his first T20I for the Tigers in almost 14 months, claimed two wickets for just 14 runs with his off-spin

“Really excited and really proud with the way we played today,” Shanto said immediately after his side won the match by five wickets.

The start of play was delayed by 30 minutes because of damp patches on the pitch

At stumps, he was unbeaten on a glacial 44 off 120 balls and Travis Head was not out on nine after nearly three hours' play were lost to rain.

The left-hander now has 18,515 runs in international cricket in 460 innings at an average of 42.56.

South Africa have been victors in seven of India’s eight visits since the first in 1992 with one series drawn in 2010/11, but six of those successes have been by a single win margin.

“I have been following the Khawaja fiasco and I cannot say I’m surprised by the ICC’s stance,” Holding told The Australian.

At the Ground 2 of Sheikh Kamal International Stadium in Cox’s Bazar, centuries from Abdullah Al Mamun and Pritom Kumar enabled North Zone to seal a comfortable six-wicket victory over South Zone.

BCB’s cricket operations committee chairman Jalal Yunus informed the reporters about the veteran opener’s unwillingness at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.

For India's women, it was their first Test victory against Australia after 11 attempts since 1977

Mustafizur was picked up by the MS Dhoni-led side in the IPL 2024 auction in Dubai for his base price of INR 2 crore

The Sydney Sixers' Curran was slapped with the punishment following a pre-match incident against the Hobart Hurricanes this month

Khawaja spoke on Friday about how the Israel-Hamas conflict had affected him, saying he despaired at seeing how many children had been killed